“Alert: cocaine extremely dangerous in circulation in Seine-Saint-Denis “. It is in these terms that the public prosecutor’s office of Bobigny warns against a cocaine cut with scopolamine, a pharmacological substance whose taking is capable of erasing the memory and of suppressing free will This adulterated cocaine is currently circulating in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis and presents serious health risks.
Scopolamine, sometimes called the rapist’s drug, acts as a sedative and has the effect of putting the user in a hypnotic state.
Cocaine is a drug whose repercussions are dangerous on the mental and psychological level: risk of myocardial infarction, stroke, convulsions sometimes accompanied by epileptic seizures. With regular use, the risks multiply, reminds the drug-info services site: perforation of the nasal septum, hallucinations, paranoid delusions, anxiety, depression, mood disorders, hormonal dysfunctions and sexual breakdown, etc.
A risk of coma
The associated scopolamine and cocaine therefore form an “extremely dangerous” cocktail, points out the Bobigny floor. Taking this adulterated cocaine has already resulted in the hospitalization of ten people. For two of them the vital prognosis is reserved. “This method of extremely harmful preparation of cocaine leads to major health risks for consumers which can go as far as coma,” said the public prosecutor’s office quoted by Reuters.
An investigation for drug trafficking and unintentional injuries has been entrusted to the territorial security of Seine-Saint-Denis.
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